The Workouts

Choose your Workout

DrawFIT encourages you to workout daily, repeat workouts, and even combine workouts! Use them as warm-ups before starting a larger project, or when you find yourself in a creative block!

It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good

— Paula Scher, Partner, Pentagram Design

Oftentimes, the process is more important than the product. Explore different subjects and materials within a workout. Give yourself permission to make mistakes and to fail. Yes, fail! When we allow ourselves to grow from of our mistakes we make room for new ideas.

Let's Get Started! Click on any of the workouts below.

What supplies do I need?

Pencils: Choose a range of graphite pencils, from soft (6B) to hard (2H). Erasers: Some workouts don't require erasers but sometimes they do come in handy. It would be good to pick up a kneaded erasers and a white plastic eraser. Charcoal: Pick up a few charcoal pencils and a small box of compressed charcoal for the Drawing like Matisse workout.Fountain Pen: A fountain pen that uses cartridges are quite convenient. Try the disposable fountain pens to see what suits you best before spending the money for an expensive one. Sketchbook: Your sketchbook should be durable enough to travel with you everyday. Be sure the pages are sturdy enough for applying dry brush watercolor.

Other Options: A range of colored pencils, a bottle of India Ink, bamboo skewers, a long wooden dowel, a variety of papers (newsprint, larger drawing paper), watercolor paints and watercolor brushes are also recommended.

About Me

My name is Carrie and I am a K-12 Art Teacher. When I began teaching 3 years ago I saw a disconnect between students’ attitudes towards drawing and how it is framed within the K-12 curriculum. When students don’t know how to draw or have no confidence in their work I have observed a decrease in their creative confidence. I wondered how teachers’ and parents’ attitudes about drawing shaped our students’ desire to draw well.

I believe we all have the capacity to draw and I also believe that the ability draw well can not only improve our daily lives but also improve our capacity for creativity within any profession.